What Crosses My Mind

  • Predictable Love

    Hurting people line the streets tonight, much like any night across America, many years, so many lives lost, waiting to be heard, always a slamming door, the same is ever preset yet people tonight are saying this time is different, this ‘is the season’ says the reverend, Al Sharpton stirs the world acknowledges his verbosity…

  • On The Issue of Talent and Race

    Recently, I shared a news article that highlighted the posting oftwo of our newest appointed City Councilors. The pitch of the article was to suggest we are breaking barriers by electing our first person of color to a political seat in the city’s government. Ironically and thankfully there was little push back to my share…

  • White Privilege

    what I have would regrettably could be different as standing alone in a crowd without indifference disguised preconceived judgmental scrutiny let me stand side by side in a world of true compassion love, human, free then we will perhaps all believe we are not racist we live in a dream

  • Father, Son, Child

    I have a father, a son, as did he, a man, like anyone, a heartbeat, a desire, a following he didn’t ever imagine, yet today, we celebrate him, this man, this iconic symbol of peace, whom certainly lived the same life, we have all, being human, it is difficult not to imagine, hardship of any…

  • To Know Who I Am

    I struggle sometimes, with the right words, perhaps an easy phrase, a greeting of some kind. I want the world to understand, I am my own being, I’ve fought a war perhaps, nothing like a soldier’s wrath.   I listen to what is real around me, the smarter speakers those meant to be listened upon.…

  • Even The Brightest Might Second Guess

    Oh it is a travesty, to imagine we live in a society, so bent on coercive plurality, we have to think about our sanity.   How is it possible so many are duped forgotten are our principles, drawn inside a very large scoop.   I listened to the news last night, again, abhorrent, aghast, afoul,…

  • While Wandering Many Years

    I remember, when as a child, I noticed for the first time, beauty, the sort that remained with me, for the rest of my life.   Oh it came in a smile, a long and enduring hug, a remark a passerby whom might notice, or help or assist, or wonder, rather than showing some practiced…

  • A Christmas Message

    We are approaching that ultimate day of family and love and Grace, with all of its beauty, delight, misconception and forgiveness, and I am reminded of where my values first evolved. Going through some papers in my den I came across a picture of my grandmother, we called her ‘Granny’ and I was immediately flooded…

  • I Have A Broken Heart

    I watched my world unravel tonight, I believe in love, I understand pain and indifference, though cannot recognize ignorance.   This night I listened to voices familiar and strong speak with certain agonizing reactions to simple insecurities.   How soon do we lose ourselves, when hiding inside a square box incapable of having corners, unaware…

  • Be A Racist, It’s Ok, It’s 2017

    I walked into a nightmare today, names were dropped, words were tossed, I couldn’t get past an, an, an, an, omission of a hopeful anomaly, that turned awful, horrific, debatably ludicrous, seemed we were all so frivolous, funny, fanatics. Seemed we were all lost in the comfort of our WHITE PRIVILEGE! White privilege regarded itself,…